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Topic: Review-A-Thon: VOTC - A New Hope (Read 1397 times)

Happy Thanksgiving from JediDefender.com, and for the holiday (and thanks in much part to Jared and Jeff for the extensive work they do to help me complete the reviews), we here are happy to dish out another of our Review-A-Thon specials!

All 4 figures in the wave represent a real broad range of quality. From really poor overall efforts to some of Hasbro's best work in the modern line, the VOTC kicked off with mixed messages from the Big H overall. Check out the links for each figure and feel free to chime in here with thoughts/opinions you may have.

The VOTC line overall was a success, and I'd say it's got far more hits than misses. the ANH wave was the biggest let down overall though unfortunately, so we'll still be waiting for that ultimate Luke or Ben for a while it seems... Leia and Han may be pretty well covered at this point, and I'd like to see Hasbro re-use those sculpts in the future as either straight re-releases or even little tweaks to the sculpt to add a costume change here or an accessory there.

Yeah, Ben's probably the lesser of the two evils, but I'd still take an all-new Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi in the line at some point. Softgoods, more articulation too... Just that perfect figure for "Old Ben". I think that if they re-release the spirit OTC Ben in a living form, that's fine for the plastic fans but I'll still want that version of him that has a more detailed/accurate softgoods skirt, full leg articulation, a hilt for his belt, and maybe a better cloak... They just have to deliver something MORE than the VOTC figure because for $10 we shoudl have gotten perfection.

On Luke I just don't know where they were going... I mean, why not sculpt the torso? Why the shirt softgoods ya know? He's perfect in articulation, they just need to drop the unnecessary cloth shirt and sculpt it. Hell I'd do without the ball/socket torso gladly if it meant he sported the plastic shirt. He'd be on par with Han if that was the case, but sadly he's probably my least favorite of the first VOTC figures.

Fortunately I feel that the VOTC line was all uphill from the ANH wave, aside from a protocol speedbump.